Music in exile: the Songhoy Blues group musical language as otherness and difference in memory of media pop music
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https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2019.212.02Abstract
With the album Music in exile (2015), the Malinese group Songhoy Blues entered on mediatic spaces commonly occupied by artists associated with mass music. Based on Semiotics of Culture, the aim is to analyze how the dynamics of the album, its semiotic boundaries, produces difference in pop music official memory in the media. The contributions of poststructural and postcolonial criticism seek the political meaning of hybridizations, which inscribe diasporic and alternative meanings. Music in exile is created in the agencements of the blends of musical genres, usually centralized to the West, and thus reorganizes musical identities.
Keywords: Songhoy Blues. Musical genres. Diaspora. Memory. Hybridism.
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